Chapter 39

Chapter 39

Brooklyn

I gasp and push the door shut and then bolt-bolt-from the hallway.

I've always been fast, but now, panic moves me faster than I thought I could go.

I scramble up the stairs, sprint across the kitchen, pull open the kitchen door and then use the banister to propel myself up the main stairs two steps at a time.

Aden is a monster! He's an actual psychopath!

Of course, I had already made this assessment-in jail when I'd interviewed him. Then again when he kidnapped me. But now?

Seeing it play out like that right in front of my face, the truth feels like it has hit home inside of me.

I reach the top of the stairs and throw myself towards my room, my fingers inches from my doorknob, when something grabs me around my waist, hauling me back against a solid body—

"Please! No!"

I scramble, shrieking, trying to get free, but Aden holds me fast. He grabs me by the hair at the base of my neck, forcing my head back, my face turned up towards his.

I pant in his arms, pinned against him, finally still.

do, Brooklyn?" he asks,

phone!" I gasp, remembering my rationale for being

He doesn't care about my reason

forward a few steps, pressing me backwards, my feet working to keep

my bedroom press into

to align this beautiful,

monster

against the wall. My breath comes

Brooklyn," he says, his body pressed against mine. I blink up at him,

down into mine, start to have a calming effect. The Mafia King may have rejected his Alpha roots long ago, but the power is ever

can feel it so strongly I could almost reach out and

evenly. I

my hair, beginning to stroke slowly at the base of

my eyes from him as he brings his face close

watching me work?"

my lip starts to tremble. I

know what happens to people who watch me when they're not supposed to?"

I shake my

brings his mouth close to my ear, the stubble of his jaw brushing against

get punished,"

this. I can feel my breath matching up with my pounding heart, my chest pressing against his. I know he can feel

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